I don’t like all these flashy cities like L.A. or Miami. I don’t know if I could be the same player if I played in those cities.
I was making a film on Muhammad Ali in 1964, and I went to Miami to film everything around the fight for the world championship with Sonny Liston. I had the good luck of flying down to Miami, and there was one empty seat, and the guy sitting next to this empty seat was Malcolm X.
Miami, in many ways, is a quintessentially American city. The juxtaposition of showy wealth with dire pennilessness, the tussle of glitz and decay doesn’t come any more marked than here.
My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked.
I’m not a Saban guy, because I don’t like liars, and I think he lied. I think he lied to the Miami Dolphins and to the fans of Miami, and he left. And it’s pretty simple: I think integrity is very important; if you don’t have integrity, I don’t know how you can be successful.
Despite everything, I love Miami. I love the people. I’m grateful this organization drafted me, and I think people should know that.
I avoided the party scene at the University of Miami. I came in to study musical theater, and I felt so behind. I literally knew nothing.
I played for Miami, with LeBron. They cut me. I got drafted by the Lakers, they traded me to Miami. Bron got there, they cut me. I remember it like it was yesterday. So yeah, it’s a chip on my shoulder.
I think I did that in my career, in Boston and Miami, being ready to play and at the same time when your number is not called, be ready to support your teammates, go out and be productive while not playing.
Susie Waggoner in ‘Miami Blues’ is just such a sweetheart, such an innocent. When I watch that, I really feel like I’m watching Susie Waggoner. I don’t really see myself. And there’s a simplicity to it that I really like.
I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, ‘It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!’
I have always respected how Bobby Bowden would go out and challenge any opponent, and he produced some legendary games against the University of Miami and Notre Dame.
When players come in and we talk to them about what it means to be a Miami Heat player, we point them at Udonis Haslem.
And I’ve been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.
My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there’s maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.
So I feel like while I’m in Miami, which is I hope for a while, a long time, forever, I’ll be able to rep Miami and everything that’s going on here.
Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor’s Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.
Cinema is a little over 100 years old, and a lot of what we do is built around film emulsion. Those things were calibrated for white skin. We’ve always placed powder on skin to dull the light. But my memory of growing up in Miami is this moist, beautiful black skin.
I think it’s really exciting for me to see Brandi branch out. Because when you look her up and see her pictures online and see that she was this bikini model, it doesn’t tell you that she’s got a degree from the University of Michigan or that she attended the master’s program and the University of Miami.
There’s a difference between Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Brooklyn and Queens. There’s a difference.
Our ultimate goal with Real Models is to open a school and I would love to do it here in Miami, open up a charter school.
I like Miami.
Every once in the while I’ll watch ‘Duck Dynasty’ and ‘Kim & Kourtney Take Miami,’ but outside of that, I don’t really watch TV. Also, I don’t text anybody, I’m hardly on Twitter or Instagram, and I’m very closed off. I’m kind of a hermit.
Miami has grown into one of the biggest Southern places next to Atlanta when it comes down to music. It just grew out of nowhere.
When I get an idea for a book, something appeals to me, it’s usually a character. I’ll see a picture of a female marshal in front of the courthouse in Miami and she’s got a shotgun on her hip and it goes up on an angle. And she’s good-looking. And I say, ‘I’ve got to use her.’
I loved LeBron when he was in Cleveland. Loved him in Miami. And loved him when he went back to Cleveland.
I was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in Canada. I left when I was three. My parents went to Miami, and that’s where I grew up.
I wanted to be the man, the King of Miami.
I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father’s Cuban, and in ‘Body of Lies,’ I played an Iraqi.
I’m from Miami, and when I was 18, I packed a suitcase and left for L.A. permanently to try and make it as an actor.
I had to get out of the Boston area, so I flipped a coin and said, ‘Heads – Miami, tails – California. I was in my mid-20s and came out here with no training. Acting wasn’t even in my mind.
I TiVo ‘CSI,’ ‘CSI: Miami,’ ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ ‘Young and The Restless’ – my husband hates that one – and that’s pretty much it.
Well, I was born in Miami, and then I lived for a long time in Tallahassee, and before that, Winter Haven, which is a tiny town in Florida. I was not a city girl.
I became a head football coach when I was 27 years old at Miami of Ohio.
When I first came into money, I bought six or seven homes. One weekend I went to Miami and bought an apartment and a mansion several blocks from each other, which was not that bright!
Miami has always been a city of booms and busts.
I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month.
I’ve got a condo in Miami, but I don’t live in it.
I went to the University of Miami.
I was at the University of Miami, and I still had, like, a semester or so left. And through the film school, I found out that Al Gore was launching a new TV network; they were looking for passionate young storytellers to transform television, which was, like, ambiguous but magnificent-sounding.
Pluto is as far across as Manhattan to Miami, but its atmosphere is bigger than the Earth’s.
Watching ‘CSI: Miami’ is like watching ‘Teen Jeopardy!’ or doing the crossword puzzle in ‘People’ magazine. It makes you feel smart even when you’re not.
I’d like to live in a house in Miami and make music, or Brooklyn.
Cuba is like going to a whole other planet. It’s so different but it’s so similar to the United States, to Miami. It’s like a doppelgaenger. It’s the mirror image. And I have no doubt, that once Cuba becomes democratic, that it will be the favorite tourist destination for Americans.
Miami has embraced me and I love them for that.
I grew up all over the world. My dad was a doctor but not a career-type doctor. He was very curious, so he took the whole family and moved to Miami in the ’70s, and we lived there for a couple of years. Then we continued like that and lived in various places around the world.
For real sushi lovers, Sushi MiKasa will prove to be what’s been missing from the Miami dining scene.
I was a young kid; I did a little time in the Billerica House of Correction, and it basically turned my life around because I said, ‘Oh, I’ll never be locked up again. They’re not taking away my privacy.’ So I flipped a coin: heads – Miami, tails -California.
I love Miami; I miss it so much. I miss the beach, the peace it brings you. I love the sound and smell of the sea.
‘Been That Way’ is a song that Timbaland gave me. Actually, the beat is. And then he called me to come out there to Miami. I went out there to work with him, and he gave me two beats for my project. One was ‘Sorry Not Sorry,’ and the other one was ‘Been That Way,’ and I recorded both of them in my hotel.
Do you know how many teams have won three straight titles over the last 40 years? Two. Michael Jordan’s Bulls twice in the 1990s and Kobe and Shaq’s Lakers from 2000-02. LeBron would have joined that list had Miami won that third straight title.
I love Miami: great town, always loved it, a great place to play basketball.
Cities like Miami, we’re trying to attract tech town. It’s part of a larger play if you will to position Miami as one of the most tech-forward cities in the country.
I remember, the first time I came to the United States in 1996, I didn’t speak a word of English at the beginning. I am very thankful for this country and the opportunity music has given me… My three kids were born here in Miami; they speak Spanish at home, but English with all their friends.
The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here’s a team that seems to be jelling.
I love David Caruso. I know it’s not cool, but I do. I watch CSI: Miami. I think he’s interesting.
